| I'd like to find a way of fulfilling some of my language-learning ambitions in a way other than dilettantism. |
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| Some minimise the two men's enthusiasms by presenting them as just an extreme form of identity-seeking dilettantism. |
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| The logic employed in the piece is precisely the sort of weekend-warrior dilettantism you'd expect. |
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| He was nearly forty, behind him a life of idleness and dilettantism, which was nevertheless the necessary ferment for his literary creation. |
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| There is a dividing line between inspired leadership and 'pigheaded dilettantism,' and both Simonds and Graham had crossed over that line. |
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| Urban fast food stations in the conflict between pragmatic dilettantism and complexity in a tiny space. |
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| The goal is to maximize the immersion factor, to the combatants in the shoes of real soldiers, not to permit authoritarianism or dilettantism. |
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| Prior to Grimm's time, philology was nothing than laborious and conscientious dilettantism, with occasional instances of scientific inspiration. |
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| Syndicalist militants viewed that party, with good reason, as a predominantly petty-bourgeois organization permeated by parliamentarist careerism and intellectual dilettantism. |
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| Both patterns have their critics, the first because it produces narrow intellectual specialists, the second because it encourages dilettantism and inadequate depth. |
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| The literary reading venues, such as Chaussee der Enthusiasten or Surfpoeten, have focused on the creative dilettantism of everyday-life observation forming a new hallmark in Berlin's cultural scene. |
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| The mixture of genius and dilettantism of both men shut me up for the moment, and whetted my curiosity. |
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| As Erasmus would find, the king and his advisers had a hard-edged attitude to scholarship that was worlds away from the enquiring dilettantism of Eltham. |
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